The answers are A and B.
<span>When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in American society. As these injustices have changed over time, the American identity has also shifted. Those changes are, in turn, reflected in American literature. </span>
Answer: D) Personification.
Explanation: Personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects. In the given excerpt from the poem "The First Snowfall" by James Russell Lowell we can see an example of the use of personification, in the phrase "every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine.." it is giving the pine, fir and hemlock (nonhuman objects) a human characteristic (they are wearing ermine).
The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it.
"none of women born shall harm macbeth.
